A Political Thread pt. 2

[Reiser99]

UK mobile and broadband firms plan huge price rise for existing customers

Exclusive: Consumers would save £600m if EE, Vodafone, O2 and others kept to increases in line with inflation

www.theguardian.com

Profits above all!

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

UK mobile and broadband firms plan huge price rise for existing customers

Exclusive: Consumers would save £600m if EE, Vodafone, O2 and others kept to increases in line with inflation

www.theguardian.com

Rip off Britain continues. It's suffering how these cartels can just fleece us. We already have some of the highest utility bills, tech bills and public transport and all are going above inflation again... Something needs to be done because the "market" is just squeezing us for all it can. People of this country are going to have no disposable income at this rate as it all gets gobbled up by key infrastructure companies making obscene profits.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

RPI plus 3.9% is scandalous. I'm with Virgin and O2 and they merged their BB and mobile last year.

 

[Reiser99]

Isn't it in economics that low wage, high cost economy is pretty much just a ****** economy.

 

[Gavin]

RPI plus 3.9% is scandalous. I'm with Virgin and O2 and they merged their BB and mobile last year.

It's madness.

I'm with Vodafone but my contract ends on 1st April 2023, so hope I can lock in a deal before that at a good rate

 

[The Seeker]

 

[The Seeker]

Nick LaLota sides with Mitt Romney and brands George Santos a ‘sociopath’ – live

Follow for updates on the latest lies and scandals swirling round the Republican congressman

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Gavin]

No sign of ‘alien or extraterrestrial’ activity in shot-down objects, US says

Four objects have been shot down in the past eight days

www.independent.co.uk

In a statement, the Department of Defense said the "object" was shot down over concerns about its "potential surveillance capabilities". The Pentagon, however, said it has yet to find out where it came from.

The military had downed the "object", shaped like an octagon and flying at an altitude of 20,000ft over Lake Huron in Michigan, on Sunday afternoon by a missile launched from an F-16 fighter jet at the direction of president Joe Biden, based on the military's recommendations.

"We are calling them objects, not balloons, for a reason," US Air Force General Glen VanHerck told reporters.

There has been at least 4 'UFOs' shot down over the past few days....

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Really bizarre situation, seen a couple of theories about it:

• It's China(/Russia?) testing US radar capabilities, that's why all of the objects are different shapes (been a sphere, a cyllinder and an octagon so far)
• This has always been happening (Taiwan have said they've had quite a few balloons in their airspace over the past couple years) but they've had to take action as that big one the other week went low enough that the public could see it, so now they're like "in for a penny in for a pound" with shooting them down

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Putin has unleashed private armies on Ukraine – and a man who could become a dangerous rival | Samantha de Bendern

Is Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the notorious Wagner group, a real threat to the president, asks Samantha de Bendern of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House

www.theguardian.com

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Chinese balloon: What investigators might learn from the debris

Experts believe contents from the wreckage are the key to uncovering its purpose and capabilities.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Revealed: secret cross-party summit held to confront failings of Brexit

Leading Brexiters and remainers, including Michael Gove and David Lammy, met for two-day ‘private discussion’ with diplomats and business leaders

www.theguardian.com

What exactly was Michael Gove doing at a secret Brexit summit?

Levelling up secretary will have one eye on his post-political career

www.theguardian.com

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Revealed: secret cross-party summit held to confront failings of Brexit

Leading Brexiters and remainers, including Michael Gove and David Lammy, met for two-day ‘private discussion’ with diplomats and business leaders

www.theguardian.com

What exactly was Michael Gove doing at a secret Brexit summit?

Levelling up secretary will have one eye on his post-political career

www.theguardian.com

People finally beginning to recognise the elephant in the room. For too long politicians have danced around the idea that sacred Brexit could actually have been a monumental fuckup. Even if the concept of Brexit itself was sound (extremely big if), how could anyone say the way it was implemented was anything other than an incompetent mess?

 

[Gavin]

People finally beginning to recognise the elephant in the room. For too long politicians have danced around the idea that sacred Brexit could actually have been a monumental fuckup. Even if the concept of Brexit itself was sound (extremely big if), how could anyone say the way it was implemented was anything other than an incompetent mess?

You'd hope so, but too many people tune in to GB News and read the Daily Mail to have this rubbish dripped into their ears and eyes



'treacherous liberal elites'



'shadowy establishment'

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

It's gone beyond a political position and is a cult now among those people.

 

[McTallshort]

You'd hope so, but too many people tune in to GB News and read the Daily Mail to have this rubbish dripped into their ears and eyes



'treacherous liberal elites'



'shadowy establishment'

Who tunes into it?

 

[Reiser99]

Who tunes into it?

Reality is not people here.

Generally people surround themselves with like minded people or avoid politics unless the person agrees with their views. It's why many people think that the country thinks like them, when actually it's very different.

 

[McTallshort]

Reality is not people here.

Generally people surround themselves with like minded people or avoid politics unless the person agrees with their views. It's why many people think that the country thinks like them, when actually it's very different.

Yeah get the whole echo chamber thing but doesn't GB news have terrible ratings?

 

[Gavin]

Reality is not people here.

Generally people surround themselves with like minded people or avoid politics unless the person agrees with their views. It's why many people think that the country thinks like them, when actually it's very different.

People maybe not tune into it much, but I would say the interaction with GB News on Twitter is a lot more

 

[McTallshort]

Anyone see Putin v West last night?

Very interesting, key points for me were that despite what I thought the Trump administration was very belligerent towards Putin. Supplying Javalins to Ukraine, expelling 60 intelligence agents after Sailsbury and pulling out of treaties when they knew Russia were ignoring them. How weak many European nations were towards Russia particularly Austria and that Boris Johnson didn't mention that after the Sailsbury poisonings he buggered off to spend the weekend with a Russian mate and not attend a NATO conference set up to deal with it, he was foreign secretary at the time.. .

Might binge watch the other episodes tonight.